Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

IMS training kicked off with a week of Information Resource Management (IRM) Tradecraft. It was similar to the 3 weeks of foreign service ...

Getting My Flag Above is a blurry cell phone photo from way in the back but you can see the flag on the screen. We're moving to ...

Employee Blogging I'll start by saying this blog is my own personal thing. This isn't the place I can or should reveal anything t...

From Defense to State There's a noticeable difference between going to work at the Pentagon and arriving at the Harry S Truman (HST) b...

This weekend is my transition from Air Force civil service to State Department foreign service specialist. It was a happy/sad last day sayin...

And Now For Something Completely Different It's now down to the final two weeks at work before I make the big switch from Defense to ...

I saw the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and it made me a little more antsy for my first Foreign Service assignment. I'm r...